[quote author=RoysToy link=board=sex;num=1083361410;start=0#6 date=04/30/04 at 19:19:38]
Mrtryst:

I haven't figured out why the numbers will sometimes appear in posts, either, but you're not the only one I've read who has them inserted. hopefully a moderator will notice this and explain. We have some great guys as moderators, lots of expertise and even patience with us sortta slow ones! Love your post, man.

Later, Luke ::)[/quote]

Well, I can explain the numbers if you are curious. The
old character encoding system is called ASCII and has
just a single quote 0x27 and a double quote 0x22. But
for publishing you usually want left and right single and
double quotes.

In the windows world they use codepage-1252 and that
has a right single quote as 0x91. But codepage-1252
conflicts with unicode, and a right single quote 0x91 gets
mapped to the unicode character 0x2019.

For HTML you convert 0x2019 to decimal and write the
character as ’

But a lot of browsers don't support unicode beyond 256,
so we end up seeing all these messed up quotes.

Probably more than you wanted to know ...

-- Erik